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Phenom Marcelo Mayer called up. Is a Roman Anthony call-up imminent?
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this boston red sox morning brett good morning greg how are you well i'm fine wiggy taking a
00:07
little shrapnel from will middlebrooks over his lead this morning i don't know if he caught that
00:12
or not well well well deserved yeah i was right up until i was right up with wiggy and wiggy i
00:17
love you i was right up with you blaming ellis score on most things but then you said bring
00:22
the infield in with two outs and i just couldn't get behind that all right let me ask you this
00:27
were you all city in high school three sports no no no was you all city in baseball i was all city
00:34
catcher he lettered he just told you he lettered in three sports yeah but just lettering doesn't
00:38
mean anything anybody you lettered in high school lettering means you just was on the team greg was
00:44
a greg was a tremendous rebounder correct who are you placing this current situation who do you who
00:50
do you place most of the blame on yeah i i would tell you alex core would be would take most of it
00:57
for me i don't think he's had a good year managing at all not not he just made like really curious moves
01:06
um i thought breslow gave him a really good roster at the start of the year um i i think there were some
01:15
flaws still there but i think all teams are flawed i don't think any team is perfect i thought breslow
01:20
put them in a really good situation i think i think alex scores had a really really poor year
01:25
managing i think he's done better with worse teams uh because i think there's more talent here
01:31
the i was incredibly excited going into the year i've become increasingly frustrated every game that
01:37
goes on um and listening to your interview last thursday like sam had to have said there's urgency
01:46
probably three or four times three or four times during that interview what have they done
01:51
to create urgency what have what has what has the either the front office or alex or what what
01:57
urgency moves have they made to put themselves in a better spot none like none right they have the
02:06
number one prospect in baseball sitting in the minors they have trevor story who needs to you know
02:13
not play and they just keep rolling out the same exact roster without making moves the only reason
02:19
marcello myers here is because alex bregman got hurt and alex bregman had the same injury three or
02:25
four years ago when he was out 58 games with the same now no two injuries are the same but that same
02:30
quad injury or whatever it is he was out 58 games so it and he was your second best hitter you know
02:38
the team you know team leader so that that that that hurts and there's just there's no urgency
02:44
they can make a couple moves and and stay in it but if they continue down this path greg
02:51
it's just going to get worse now they're now in fourth place seven and a half out and they're just
02:56
digging themselves an incredible hole without much um much you know unless they make some urgency
03:03
moves i just feel like they're just going to keep rolling it out and the urgency brett too you could
03:08
also talk about crochet's last start 85 pitches the bullpens totally and completely taxed and you take
03:15
them out you know i just everything about this season feels like it's like we'll just wait around
03:20
the red sox have the entire city to themselves for about another two months and they are squandering
03:27
that's the frustrating part that is you're 100 right that's the frustrating part and they are
03:33
just squandering it right i mean you have all eyes on you the selfish get knocked out the patriots are
03:38
still kind of in a rebuild but they don't start camp for another you know month and a half two months
03:42
and you have you have the ability to do that run that they did where they where they went to the
03:47
alcs and they have you know they kind of got all the fans back in they have that ability right now
03:52
and they're just not taking advantage of it is so is it is there any chance and now this is this is um
04:01
you know this is a wild card or or one of those things you throw out there and see if it sticks is
04:06
there any chance brett that if they're in this position come the trade deadline and it looks like
04:12
they might be out of it that the organization maybe says we move on from core or because of
04:19
the extension are they kind of stuck to them well well yeah i i think they if a if a team president
04:29
tells me they have urgency i would definitely tell you that that would be on the table but i'm not
04:34
seeing any urgency so i would tell you that i don't think that they do that right i think they just did
04:39
they just did the deal with him mid-season last year so i don't think he's going anywhere
04:45
but chris has talked about this chris has talked about this for a couple years now where
04:50
they didn't have talent so alex core became the face of the organization right and that was
04:56
last last year so during that time last year i think fans would have revolted if they didn't do that
05:02
and they let alex core go because he was considered greg the face of the organization
05:06
because they just didn't have a lot of talent right and i think i think chris has spoke on that
05:11
in the past where who what talent did they have no they have alex core and they kept rolling him out
05:16
there to be like you know kind of the front-facing man of the organization um and i think if they
05:23
didn't sign that contract then or at you know at the end of the year i think they would have caught a lot
05:27
um grief from the fans on that right but now they have talent so something something stinks something
05:35
has to go wrong devers doesn't want to play first now can devers play third base that would open up
05:40
roman anthony coming up and being a an impact bat for you nope can't do that okay so now they're they're
05:46
just kind of stuck they have they have their dh their former dh sitting in no marriage land and
05:52
they're paying him another 60 million dollars what's a what's 14 million for alex core it doesn't
05:57
count against the the tax it's just money why is alex core is so mad about the graduation but
06:03
seemingly okay with everything else like i understand you're pissed that people say things about you and
06:09
decisions you make off the field but like he was far more enraged about people questioning his decision
06:16
to miss the game that he's been after any of these losses it's exactly why lebron was pissed at
06:20
stephen a smith it's talking about you being a dad your family yeah and even cora said it cora goes
06:25
listen there are bigger things than baseball like you know what i mean and family so he was more mad
06:29
about that right you know like your your team is pissing away a season right now you you have the most
06:35
one run losses in major league baseball with 14 that is at the feet of the manager of the team
06:41
all right brett yeah i wish all right greg talk to you guys thanks all right wish the i wish this
06:47
the state of the franchise were better but it's not nope but you said that was it you who said who
06:54
or curtis asked the question i guess earlier i know you did i mean how many teams in this city
07:01
would keep a manager who has finished last in three of the last four or three of the last five or what
07:08
four of the last four whatever it is right like i i mean and then courtney brought at some point you
07:14
have to ask if he's the real problem right and then courtney brought up an even better piece than
07:19
that because she said not only is he still the manager but they extended him yeah they extended
07:24
him but also if you're john henry and you're hearing that your players love him and i before i even say
07:30
this like what what happened at the liverpool parade was terrible but john henry and linda are
07:35
at the liverpool parade enjoying a like a wonderful success for one of their other teams
07:42
so do they care like do they care right now about the red sox record yeah they do because they gave
07:48
they went out they signed crochet they gave him money they got bregman yeah no i i get his job as an
07:54
owner but i'm saying you're also keeping some players who love alex cora happy so if you're john
07:59
henry do you really care about wins or losses or do you care about the people that you're paying millions
08:03
of dollars you know being happy because you have other success in your life i think he cares about
08:08
wins and losses he's he's just not one of those face forward type of owners well he is because he
08:14
went and spoke to rafael devers after rafael no i'm saying like like he hot he re-signed cora
08:20
that he did everything you wanted if you're a diehard you know socks fan he did everything you wanted to do
08:27
and he even you know brought cora back or extended cora who some people felt like you know that he was
08:35
one of the better managers in baseball so there's really no blame in his feet there's i don't think
08:40
there's any blame at sam or breslow's feet it comes down to cora with some of the decisions that
08:45
he makes in game yeah and i think big reason we all celebrated myself included uh the cora extension
08:53
was that cora we thought would have a bunch of options and if he signed a new three-year deal in
08:59
the middle of the year which was surprising to all of us at the time it meant to me that they had
09:05
given him assurances payroll wise that they were going to invest that cora re-signing and extending
09:11
meant the organization was going in a different direction and they did and they went and got the guy
09:16
that he wanted right right and so you know and alex bregman so a guy that we all thought was
09:22
embodied the fans urgency to win has not resembled that at all this year at all he didn't want to
09:30
talk to devers about the move he doesn't want to you know have crochet on the mound over 85 pitches
09:36
he doesn't want to bring mayor up or roman anthony until he's forced to like i just i agree with
09:44
wiggy 100 on and we're sitting here talking about a game that you lost yesterday and for all the
09:51
baseball people out there want to be baseball people that are questioning me on where your third
09:54
baseman should be if your third baseman is in the right position we might not be having this
10:00
conversation and that's pure in part because you decide to keep the guy back and play him further
10:08
off of the grass but what do i know right middle brooks is mad now what do i know
10:14
you lost and everybody's telling me what he did was right but you lost the game because of a play
10:19
the third baseman could not make they need a chick-fil-a party
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